Sunset Cruises – The Remarkable Voyages of History’s Last Sailing Warships
“While ship-builders would continue to add sails to their designs for decades to come, by the 1830s most naval powers were busily retrofitting their existing wooden sail fleets with boilers, engines, paddles and screws.” FRANCE’S Valmy…
Animals at War – Check Out These Amazing Tales of Four-Legged Heroes from Military History
“When humans charge into battle, invariably animals go with them.” By Robin Hutton ANIMALS HAVE BEEN a part of war for as long as humans have fought each other. From Hannibal’s elephants and the camels…
Broken Bombers – How the U.S. Military Covered Up Fatal Flaws in the B-47 Stratojet with Disastrous Results
“Those B-47s exploding over America could hardly be denied for long.” By H. Bruce Franklin IT WAS JUST supposed to be a routine training flight, not one of our highly classified Arctic missions refueling warplanes…
Ordeal at Allerona – GI Recounts Death-Defying Escape from POW Train in Italy
“The American airmen had just arrived on a mission to blow up the Allerona bridge at the moment we were passing over their target.” SIX YEARS AGO, MilitaryHistoryNow.com published an article about some of the…
She Spies – Six Amazing Female Agents Who Helped the Allies Win WW2
“Some disrupted enemy communications, others planted mines and bombs. A few, armed with grenades and Sten guns, even fought as undercover combatants.” By Greg Lewis THE SECOND WORLD War was in many ways a women’s…
Britain’s Forgotten War — 10 Surprising Facts About the 1918 Russia Intervention
“The campaign remains virtually unknown in Britain today.” By Damien Wright AFTER THREE YEARS of loss and suffering on the Eastern Front, Imperial Russia descended into revolution. In November 1917, Vladimir Lenin‘s Bolsheviks (later known…
